Thursday, November 02, 2006
Yep.
[Kerry] clearly didn't write his own joke, and was too slow-witted to get the joke he was supposed to deliver. . . .
He certainly should have understood instantly what he was saying when he said it, and realized how smarmy it was. What we're left with is the unavoidable conclusion that Kerry doesn't know anything about what he's saying when he says it. Like Bush, he's just reading a script, and like Bush, he's bungling it badly. . . .
In the end, the joke's really on us, because ever since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, we Americans have accepted uncritically the idea that our political leaders will be simply animated noisemakers for transmitting the carefully scripted "talking points," sound bites, polemics and yes, even jokes written for them by a backroom group of political strategists--all presented as though they were coming from the brains of the people doing the talking.
We get the government, and the politicians, we deserve.
Let's at least be thankful for the laughs they give us, inadvertently.
Read the entire article
[Kerry] clearly didn't write his own joke, and was too slow-witted to get the joke he was supposed to deliver. . . .
He certainly should have understood instantly what he was saying when he said it, and realized how smarmy it was. What we're left with is the unavoidable conclusion that Kerry doesn't know anything about what he's saying when he says it. Like Bush, he's just reading a script, and like Bush, he's bungling it badly. . . .
In the end, the joke's really on us, because ever since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, we Americans have accepted uncritically the idea that our political leaders will be simply animated noisemakers for transmitting the carefully scripted "talking points," sound bites, polemics and yes, even jokes written for them by a backroom group of political strategists--all presented as though they were coming from the brains of the people doing the talking.
We get the government, and the politicians, we deserve.
Let's at least be thankful for the laughs they give us, inadvertently.
Read the entire article